Relationships in supply chain management

Procurement is a very important process in a Supply Chain, a firm, whatever it's newly founded or highly developed, will have the procurement process. Procurement process is related to suppliers, and there are many relationships between the firm and suppliers. So being a Supply Chain Manager, have an excellent managing of the relationships between firm and suppliers will be very important. Sometimes, the existing suppliers can't offer the parts that the firm need for the …

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